@article{miozzo2022hand,

title = {How the hand has shaped sign languages},

author = {Michele Miozzo and Francesca Peressotti},

url = {http://colab.psy.unipd.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Miozzo_Peressotti_SciRep_2022.pdf},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Scientific Reports},

volume = {12},

number = {1},

pages = {11980},

publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{lorenzoni2022language,

title = {Language as a cue for social categorization in bilingual communities},

author = { Anna Lorenzoni and Mikel Santesteban and Francesca Peressotti and Cristina Baus and Eduardo Navarrete},

url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276334},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276334},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Plos one},

volume = {17},

number = {11},

pages = {e0276334},

publisher = {Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA},

abstract = {This registered report article investigates the role of language as a dimension of social categorization. Our critical aim was to investigate whether categorization based on language occurs even when the languages coexist within the same sociolinguistic context, as is the case in bilingual communities. Bilingual individuals of two bilingual communities, the Basque Country (Spain) and Veneto (Italy), were tested using the memory confusion paradigm in a ‘Who said what?’ task. In the encoding part of the task, participants were presented with different faces together with auditory sentences. Two different languages of the sentences were presented in each study, with half of the faces always associated with one language and the other half with the other language. Spanish and Basque languages were used in Study 1, and Italian and Venetian dialect in Study 2. In the test phase, the auditory sentences were presented again and participants were required to decide which face uttered each sentence. As expected, participants error rates were high. Critically, participants were more likely to confuse faces from the same language category than from the other (different) language category. The results indicate that bilinguals categorize individuals belonging to the same sociolinguistic community based on the language these individuals speak, suggesting that social categorization based on language is an automatic process.},

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}

@article{Gastaldon2021,

title = {When inefficient speech-motor control affects speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates of language prediction in stuttering},

author = {Simone Gastaldon and Pierpaolo Busan and Giorgio Arcara and Francesca Peressotti},

url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.28.466231v1.full.pdf},

doi = {10.1101/2021.10.28.466231},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-10-28},

urldate = {2021-10-28},

journal = {bioRxiv},

pages = {2021.10.28.466231},

abstract = {It is well attested that people predict forthcoming information during language comprehension. The literature presents different proposals on how this ability could be implemented. Here, we tested the hypothesis according to which language production mechanisms have a role in such predictive processing. To this aim, we studied two electroencephalographic correlates of predictability during speech comprehension ‒ pre-target alpha‒beta (8-30 Hz) power decrease and the post-target N400 event-related potential (ERP) effect, ‒ in a population with impaired speech-motor control, i.e., adults who stutter (AWS), compared to typically fluent adults (TFA). Participants listened to sentences that could either constrain towards a target word or not, allowing or not to make predictions. We analyzed time-frequency modulations in a silent interval preceding the target and ERPs at the presentation of the target. Results showed that, compared to TFA, AWS display: i) a widespread and bilateral reduced power decrease in posterior temporal and parietal regions, and a power increase in anterior regions, especially in the left hemisphere (high vs. low constraining) and ii) a reduced N400 effect (non-predictable vs. predictable). The results suggest a reduced efficiency in generating predictions in AWS with respect to TFA. Additionally, the magnitude of the N400 effect in AWS is correlated with alpha power change in the right pre-motor and supplementary motor cortex, a key node in the dysfunctional network in stuttering. Overall, the results support the idea that processes and neural structures prominently devoted to speech planning and execution support prediction during language comprehension.},

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}

@article{Guerra2021,

title = {The coding of object thickness in plants: when roots matter},

author = {Guerra, S and Bonato, B and Wang, Q and Ceccarini, F and Peressotti, A and Peressotti, F and Bulgheroni, M and Castiello, U},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000289},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000289},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-19},

journal = {Journal of Comparative Psychology},

volume = {135},

number = {4},

pages = {495-504},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ceccarini2021,

title = {On-line control of movement in plants},

author = {Ceccarini, Francesco and Guerra, Silvia and Peressotti, Alessandro and Peressotti, Francesca and Bulgheroni, Maria and Baccinelli, Walter and Bonato, Bianca and Castiello, Umberto },

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.06.160},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.06.160},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-07-16},

journal = {Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications},

volume = {564},

pages = {86-91},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Simonetti2021,

title = {Can plants move like animals? A three-dimensional stereovision analysis of movement in plants},

author = {Simonetti, V and Bulgheroni, M and Guerra, S and Peressotti, A and Peressotti, F and Baccinelli, W and Ceccarini, F and Bonato, B and Wang, Q and Castiello, U},

url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11071854 },

doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11071854 },

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-06-22},

journal = {Animals},

volume = {11},

number = {7},

pages = {1854},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Bonato2021,

title = {Cracking the code: a comparative approach to plant communication},

author = {Bianca Bonato and Francesca Peressotti and Silvia Guerra and Qiuran Wang and Umberto Castiello},

url = { https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2021.1956719},

doi = {DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2021.1956719},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Communicative & Integrative Biology},

volume = {14},

pages = {176-185},

publisher = {Taylor & Francis Group},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{lorenzoni2021dimensionsb,

title = {Dimensions of social categorization: Inside the role of language},

author = { Anna Lorenzoni and Mikel Santesteban and Francesca Peressotti and Cristina Baus and Eduardo Navarrete},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Plos one},

volume = {16},

number = {7},

pages = {e0254513},

publisher = {Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Gastaldon2020,

title = {Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production},

author = {Simone Gastaldon and Giorgio Arcara and Eduardo Navarrete and Francesca Peressotti},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945220303701

http://colab.psy.unipd.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Gastaldon_et_al_2020_Cortex.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.026},

issn = {00109452},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-10-13},

urldate = {2020-10-13},

journal = {Cortex},

volume = {131},

pages = {328-345},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {We recorded EEG from participants performing both a comprehension and a production task in two separate blocks. Participants listened to high and low constraint incomplete sentences and were asked either to name a picture to complete it (production) or to simply listen to the final word (comprehension). We found that in a silent gap before the final stimulus, predictable stimuli elicited alpha and beta desynchronization in both tasks, signaling the pre-activation of linguistic information. Source estimation highlighted the involvement of left-lateralized language areas and temporo-parietal areas in the right hemisphere. Furthermore, correlations between the desynchronizations in comprehension and production showed spatiotemporal commonalities in language- relevant areas of the left hemisphere. As proposed by prediction-by-production models, our results suggest that comprehenders engage the production system while predicting upcoming words.



Keywords: language prediction, language production, alpha–beta oscillations, internal model},

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}

@article{ceccarini2020speed,

title = {Speed--accuracy trade-off in plants},

author = { Francesco Ceccarini and Silvia Guerra and Alessandro Peressotti and Francesca Peressotti and Maria Bulgheroni and Walter Baccinelli and Bianca Bonato and Umberto Castiello},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Psychonomic Bulletin & Review},

pages = {1--8},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}